Spelling,Reading Abilities and Speech Perception in Deaf Children with a Cochlear Implant |
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| Authors: | Marie Simon Lauren A Fromont Marie-Thérèse Le Normand |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et cognition, Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;2. école d‘Orthophonie et d‘Audiologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;3. Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada;4. INSERM &5. Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université Paris Descartes, Boulogne Billancourt Cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis study aims to compare word spelling outcomes for French-speaking deaf children with a cochlear implant (CI) with hearing children who matched for age, level of education and gender. A picture written naming task controlling for word frequency, word length, and phoneme-to-grapheme predictability was designed to analyze spelling productions. A generalized linear mixed model on the percentage of correct spelling revealed an effect of participant’s reading abilities, but no effect of hearing status. Word frequency and word length, but not phoneme-to-grapheme predictability, contributed to explaining the spelling variance. Deaf children with a CI made significantly less phonologically plausible errors and more phonologically unacceptable errors when compared to their hearing peers. Age at implantation and speech perception scores were related to deaf children’s errors. A good word spelling level can be achieved by deaf children with a CI, who nonetheless use less efficiently the phoneme-to-grapheme strategy than do hearing children. |
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